Automatic Image Interpolation Using Homography

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Springer International Publishing

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2738

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10.1155/2010/307546

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307546

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Received

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The Author(s)2010 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Yi-Leh Wu,Aff1

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Cheng-Yuan Tang,Aff2

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Maw-Kae Hor,Aff3

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Chi-Tsung Liu,Aff2

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Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, no. 43, Section 4, Keelung Rood, Taipei 106, Taiwan, 2Department of Information ManagementHuafan University, no. 1, Huafan Rood Shihding TownshipTaipei 2,2301Taiwanhfu.edu.tw, Department of Computer Science, National Cheng Chi University, no. 64, Section 2, ZhiNan Rood, Wenshan District, Taipei 11605, Taiwan,

While taking photographs, we often face the problem that unwanted foreground objects (e.g., vehicles, signs, and pedestrians) occlude the main subject(s). We propose to apply image interpolation (also known ) techniques to remove unwanted objects in the photographs and as inpainting to automatically patch the vacancy after the unwanted objects are removed. When given only a single image, if the information loss after the unwanted objects in images being removed is too great, the patching results are usually unsatisfactory. The proposed inpainting techniques employ the homographic constraints in geometry to incorporate multiple images taken from different viewpoints. Our experiment results showed that the proposed techniques could effectively reduce process in searching for potential patches from multiple input images and decide the best patches for the missing regions.

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